 | Grenville Kleiser - 1910 - 302 pages
...our individuality. Let a man take to heart these inspiring words of Emerson : "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but the Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. 43. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift 25 you can present every moment with the cumulative force...another, you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,... | |
 | Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...are parlour soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,... | |
 | Harry Levinson, Cynthia Lang - 1981 - 388 pages
...subordinates, as Emerson did in his essay "Self Reliance": "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift can present every moment with the cumulative force...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession."22 Emerson's advice is not always followed, and in some organizations identification can... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumuJative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only... | |
 | Richard B. Miller - 1991 - 306 pages
...no law less than the eternal law." Against those who recommend custom and tradition, Emerson adds, "Your own gift you can present every moment with the...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession." Thus the highest truth for Emerson: "The way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly... | |
 | Martin Klammer - 2010 - 193 pages
...group identification obscures the real person. "Insist on yourself. Never imitate," Emerson writes. "Your own gift you can present every moment with the...another you have only an extemporaneous half possession" (Essays, 278-79). Emerson tells his readers that "under all the screens" of religious and political... | |
 | Judith Cornell - 1997 - 270 pages
...powerful medium. 'he soul created the arts wherever they have flourished. . . Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. -Ralph Waldo Emerson5... | |
 | Stephen D. Easton - 1998 - 284 pages
...another attorney's style, you will look like a phony. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift can present every moment with the cumulative force...cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you only have an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach... | |
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. 
